P1C2 "I guess it wasn't exactly a triumph or anything, was it?"
P1C2 "The face he had given himself in mirrors since boyhood."
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P1C2 "You're the most interesting person I've ever met."
P1C2 "I know damn well I don't deserve this."
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P1C2 "By any stretch of the imagination you can call yourself a man!"
P1C2 "By now the feeling of this attitude was as familiar as an unbecoming, comfortable old coat."
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P1C3 "aura of mastery" "clung like gold" "stronger and better than his son's."
P1C3 "Its false smiles, its little burts of social laughter." - re Mrs G
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P1C3 "she'd held herself poised for immediate flight."
P1C3 "better proof of manhood" "holding that tamed submissive girl" "while she promised she would bear his child." "Having another child to prove the first one hadn't been a mistake."
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P1C4 "the four of them, were painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture."
P1C4 "cute little winding roads" "cute little houses" "good consumers" "Togetherness." - Frank on a rant about society
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P1C6 "as honest and helpless as a child about to be sick on her party dress."
P1C6 "potrait of himself as a decent but disillusioned young family man, sadly and bravely at war with his environment."
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P1C6 "he was only dimly aware of her whispering" "he could be up and dressed and out of this place in thirty seconds."
P1C6 "Listen: you were swell. Take care now."
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P1C7 "this great premise of ours that we're somehow very special and superior to the whole thing."
P1C7 "It's what you are that's being denied and denied and denied in this kind of life."
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P2C2 "her husband called her an ignorant **** and broke three bones of his fist against the wall."
P2C2 "Did other men feel distaste at the sight of their own children?"
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P2C2 "sounds like a pretty immature deal" "what kind of a man is going to be able to take a thing like that?"
P2C2 "Oh, Jesus God, to be there with April Wheeler."
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P2C3 "Deep down, what she loved and needed was work itself." - re Mrs G
P2C3 "Isn't it all sort of - unsavoury somehow?"
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P2C4 "I don't mean to be dense but what exactly will you be doing?" - Jack Ordway
P2C4 "I don't think it's possible for anybody to discover anything on the fifteenth floor of the Knox Building."
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P2C5 "the tip of her finger was plum-coloured"
P2C5 "You want to play house, you got to have a job."
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P2C5 "plenty of people are on to the emptiness part" "it takes a whole hell of a lot more to see the hopelessness."
P2C5 "I get the feeling she's female." "I get the feeling you're male."
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P2C6 "the pressure was off; life had come mercifully back to normal."
P2C6 "Do you think you're going to stop me?"
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P3C1 "But I've had two children" "Doesn't that count in my favour?"
P3C1 "If I had a paranoid schizophrenic coming to my house, I'd probably want to get the kids out of the way too."
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P3C3 "This whole world of marvellous golden people somewhere."
P3C3 "I don't know who I am either."
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P3C4 "I think you're probably a meddling, tiresome woman, possibly a latent lesbian."
P3C4 "I mean why did you tell me about it?" "I don't love you and I never really have."
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P3C5 "Don't people have babies in Europe?" "What's the real reason?"
P3C5 "Say whatever crazy God damn thing comes into your head." "I'm glad I'm not gonna be that kid."
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P3C6 "It's the inability to love."
P3C6 "If black could be made into white by talking, you'd be the man for the job."
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P3C6 "You're an empty, hollow ******* shell of a woman..."
P3C6 "She was, after all, a damned good-looking girl."
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P3C8 "The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy."
P3C8 "April's voice no longer spoke to him."
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P3C9 "He was so damned mild!" "You're a lying *******." "He was boring."
P3C9 "Oh I was very fond of the Wheelers, but they were always a bit - a bit whimsical, for my taste."
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
P1C2 "I know damn well I don't deserve this."
Back
P1C2 "You're the most interesting person I've ever met."
Card 3
Front
P1C2 "By now the feeling of this attitude was as familiar as an unbecoming, comfortable old coat."
Back
Card 4
Front
P1C3 "Its false smiles, its little burts of social laughter." - re Mrs G
Back
Card 5
Front
P1C3 "better proof of manhood" "holding that tamed submissive girl" "while she promised she would bear his child." "Having another child to prove the first one hadn't been a mistake."
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